White guy commits a crime and is recorded. Police feed it into the AI and it pops up with a black guy's name. Yeah, that's shit when it happens. But that sort of error is rare.

Black guy commits a crime and is recorded. Police feed it into the AI and it pops up with some other black guy's name. This happens a lot more often. Because, like you said, facial recognition is much less accurate with dark skin. But it doesn't produce "tons and tons" of false positives. Because if it did, judges wouldn't grant arrest warrants for "tons and tons" of people and just laugh the evidence out of court. At most, one warrant would be granted. Perhaps the wrong one. But statistically, the black vs white arrest rate statistics wouldn't be distorted greatly.

Police harass "tons and tons" of colored people because facial recognition of minorities is shit. And they have to hit the streets and start looking at faces in person.

More along the lines of Noble Prince Khaleed and the ungrateful peasant uprise.

... are not proof. Take granny to court.

... meets a bunch of greasy fingerprints.

My state DMV or the post office doesn't know my mobile phone number. How could this even work?

In the cases where some organization _demands_ a phone number, they get my landline. Which is for outgoing calls only. The phone doesn't even have a ringer.

Well, thank goodness that just grows on trees.

The Japanese have never subsidised their commercial aircraft business to the degree that Boeing/Airbus have been. Bombardier tried with the CS100 with Canadian backing, but Boeing applied sufficient pressure, both above board and behind the scenes that Bombardier was obliged to kill off the competing product and get/stay out of the commercial aircraft business, selling the CS production to Airbus. The only place that a reasonable shelter from Boeing antics could be found.

Although Boeing lost the legal battle, sometimes when your opposition lights its hair on fire and charges you screaming with pointed sticks, it's best just to relinquish the battlefield.

Which begat the Great Toyota War.

Then it behooves our government to find something for that 25% to do. If for no other reason than to keep them too busy to revolt. Something like the Conservation Corps, Hoover Dam and other public works projects. If for no other reason than to keep UBI funded troublemakers busy.

And keep in mind that the 25% in this country were perfectly happy with isolationist policies right up until the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor (apologies to J. Belushi).

The elevator sketch?

MS Bob has entered the conversation.

But they do want them. Or at least North American customers. Take a look at the size of a Toyota Tundra or Nissan Forntier in comparison to their earlier models. Big. Because that's what sells. And that's how they make profits. By moving merchandise off the lot. It's not just the "Big 3".

You might be happy driving a Subaru Gnat. But my guess is that people drifting toward that end of the market are one step away from a bus pass anyway.

But not as many as Janis Joplin singing Mercedes Benz.

They watched him do his double hand-job dance for 45 minutes... and cheered.

Trump fans are the ones who listen to Trump the least.

Considering it's now just a phone in a laptop form, they've got to be making money hand over fist. I think I'll stick to my ordinary laptop/PC that can play video games. There is at least some competition in that market keeping prices sane (well, somewhat sane, not paying 3000 Euro for a oversized phone).